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...long awaited "peace terms" offered by Mahatma Gandhi to the British Government were duly forwarded by Viceroy Lord Irwin to London last week. Nationalist demands were reported to be simply: "Give us Dominion status and we will abandon the civil disobedience campaign...
...back on Woden, alchemy, and Jew-baiting ! He was suing his second wife, Dr. Mathilda Kemnitz von Ludendorff for divorce on the grounds that she, a one-time psychiatrist, had deluded him into espousing activities which had brought him into ridicule, which his friends had finally persuaded him to abandon. Jews rejoiced, but not for long. Came a blast from Wodenist Ludendorff. He was not suing for divorce, he still loved his wife, still hated the Jews. What he had done was file a petition for dissolution of their financial partnership so that Frau von Ludendorff might be protected from...
...give a legal opinion on the disputed clause in the Army appropriation bill. Attorney General Mitchell refused. Futile conferences between the Army and the Navy followed. Secretary Hurley broke off negotiations, carried the dispute directly to President Hoover with a request that he issue orders to the Navy to abandon its land stations as contrary to law. Secretary Hurley's argument was that the Naval air force should "go back to sea" and leave the defense of the coast to the Army...
...Oxon, will utterly abandon his ideally enlightened self to the diligent pursuance of any task not altogether turpiludicrous. Will not suffer his already-disgusted self to consider programmes redolent of get-rich-in-a-hurry schemes. Romantic ladies kindly neutral. Address...
...first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...